Amazon RDS Job Trends in Birmingham

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Amazon RDS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 124 90
Rank change year-on-year +37 -34 +54
Permanent jobs citing Amazon RDS 15 3 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.87% 0.16% 0.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.04% 1.09% 2.93%
Number of salaries quoted 13 3 8
10th Percentile £46,250 - £52,375
25th Percentile £50,000 £64,471 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £69,308 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.43% -7.59% +25.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £74,144 £78,125
90th Percentile £77,782 - £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £66,250 £69,308 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.41% +32.01% -17.65%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Birmingham

Amazon RDS falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 213 274 273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.31% 14.62% 22.23%
Number of salaries quoted 172 139 235
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,800 £40,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year - +0.88% +0.92%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,500 £80,500 £82,950
West Midlands median annual salary £51,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.36% +4.76% -

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Amazon RDS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Amazon RDS job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Amazon RDS
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Amazon RDS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Amazon RDS

Amazon RDS
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon RDS in Birmingham over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon RDS in Birmingham

Amazon RDS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (40.00%) Confluence
2 2 (13.33%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (60.00%) Amazon ECS
3 8 (53.33%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (53.33%) Amazon S3
3 8 (53.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (46.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (46.67%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (46.67%) Serverless
4 7 (46.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (40.00%) Amazon ELB
5 6 (40.00%) AWS KMS
6 5 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (33.33%) Azure
7 4 (26.67%) Amazon Glacier
8 2 (13.33%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (13.33%) dbt
8 2 (13.33%) GCP
8 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (13.33%) Pulumi
8 2 (13.33%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) DNS
1 6 (40.00%) Firewall
1 6 (40.00%) FTP
1 6 (40.00%) HTTP
1 6 (40.00%) SMTP
1 6 (40.00%) SSH
2 2 (13.33%) IMAP
2 2 (13.33%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (13.33%) Redis
3 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
3 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (46.67%) Git
3 6 (40.00%) JIRA
3 6 (40.00%) Vagrant
4 3 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 6 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Advertising
4 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Site Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) AWS CDK
2 2 (13.33%) Django
2 2 (13.33%) LDAP
3 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (6.67%) React
3 1 (6.67%) RESTful
3 1 (6.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Replication
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (6.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Linux
2 6 (40.00%) Amazon Linux
2 6 (40.00%) VMS
3 2 (13.33%) Ubuntu
3 2 (13.33%) Unix
3 2 (13.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) DevOps
2 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
2 8 (53.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (46.67%) Platform Engineering
4 6 (40.00%) Change Management
4 6 (40.00%) Cloud Security
4 6 (40.00%) Configuration Management
4 6 (40.00%) Patch Management
5 4 (26.67%) Observability
5 4 (26.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (13.33%) Clean Code
7 2 (13.33%) Incident Response
7 2 (13.33%) Open Source
7 2 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (13.33%) Secrets Management
7 2 (13.33%) Service-Level Objective
7 2 (13.33%) Task Automation
8 1 (6.67%) Code Quality
8 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 6 (40.00%) Groovy
2 6 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (33.33%) Java
4 4 (26.67%) Perl
5 3 (20.00%) SQL
6 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
7 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (53.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
4 2 (13.33%) Degree
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
System Software
1 9 (60.00%) Docker
2 4 (26.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (13.33%) DFS Replication
3 2 (13.33%) Dovecot
3 2 (13.33%) Postfix
3 2 (13.33%) Squid
Systems Management
1 9 (60.00%) Terraform
2 6 (40.00%) Grafana
2 6 (40.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (13.33%) Nessus
3 2 (13.33%) Proxmox
4 1 (6.67%) Ansible
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (13.33%) Google
2 2 (13.33%) Jaspersoft